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Why do continental locations have a larger seasonal temperature range than maritime (ocean) locations?

Question 6 options:

water heats and cools faster than land

trees impact how much sunlight is absorbed by land

mountains block sunlight from some regions

land heats and cools faster than water

Question 7 (1 point)
If the Sun and volcanoes were controlling the climate, the climate would

Question 7 options:

undergo global warming at the same rate as we are seeing currently

undergo global warming at a faster rate than what we are seeing currently

be a little warmer than the climate is today.

be a little cooler than the climate is today.

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answer: B

Explanation: 6. Air temperature is one of the most basic climate elements. It is reported in just about every corner of the world and seems fundamental to human comfort (or discomfort). For standard air temperature measurements, instruments are housed in an enclosure, such as the ubiquitous Stevenson screen seen at the right, to shield the sensor from sunlight. Note the thermometer is placed at about head height. If it were located elsewhere, such as at ground level, maximum and minimum temperatures would be different, although the overall average would be about the same.

7.  C.

Solar forcing should warm Earth's atmosphere roughly evenly by altitude, with some variation by wavelength/energy regime. However, the atmosphere is warming at lower altitudes while cooling higher up. This is the expected pattern if greenhouse gases drive temperature, as on Venus.

from almost the creation of the first true maps of the earth, people started seeing how continents would be able to fit together.   in particular, people noticed that south america fits almost exactly into africa.

you should be aware that while world maps were around early in the 1600’s and better defined by the end of the 1700’s, those maps were not ‘public’ but were treated as state secrets.   and so it was not till much later that the broader ‘science’ community had access to good quality and accurate world maps.

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it is now known that most of the major continental masses can be fit together in a jigsaw process.   in fact we now know that the continents were indeed once all joined together as one land mass – the supercontinent of pangaea.

if you look at most world maps you will ponder how this is evidence, as the continents really don’t appear to ‘fit’ together very well.   what you need to understand is that the vast majority of maps are drawn using a map projection that has the north and south poles (which are points) are a line the width of the map at the top and bottom.   this means that the map distorts the true shape of the earth’s land and oceans as you love closer to the poles.     some other map projections distort less, but have the map shape looking like segments of an orange.   see here for a range of map projections.   check out the way greenland changes size in each!

what is more remarkable, is the next piece of evidence when added to the shape of continents.

location of mountains and fossils

what is remarkable, when you reassemble all the continents together, the ancient mountain ranges (many now eroded to their cores) and the location of rock types and fossils all match up.

due to the fact that it skipped a generation we can tell it is definitely not a dominant trait, therefore it must be recessive. i think this is right let me know!

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